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I’ve paid for a lot of therapy and it’s been worth every dime.

Not just for my head, but also my heart.

If you’ve never been in therapy — or good therapy — this is how it works.

You’re chatting away, sharing your observations or feelings about someone or something.

Then your therapist says something so stunningly simple that it changes who you are.

This is how I learned the most important thing about love.

6 Words

I’ve written previously about my teacher, the Golden Lady. This gem about change, and this one about reading other’s peoples’ minds.

But it’s Valentines, so I wanted to give you a lesson in love.

It’s just 6 words. But it’s six words that have echoed in my head and my heart ever since I first heard them.

I have no idea what – or who – I was talking about at the time. I can only remember the response.

Amy, she said, ‘power is the opposite of love’.

POWER IS THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE

That’s it. All you need to know.

Think about the most loving relationships you know. Who ‘wears the pants’? No one.

I see women use sex as power. I see parents try to control their adult children with money. I see friends peddle influence.

There’s no love there.

POWER IS THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE

I wanted to let you to know how much I love and appreciate you. How I look forward to your your comments and how grateful I am for your visits.

It is a gift to me – so I wanted to give you something in return.

Happy Valentines Day.

I’d love to hear your thoughts….

(photo credit: PinkSherbertPhotography)

I got a gift from Tina Fey over the holidays.

Actually, I was headed to Puerto Rico for a little getaway so I asked my Facebook friends for a good read and Michelle suggested Tina’s book, Bossy Pants.

As you might expect, some of the book is hysterically funny. At one point in my reading, I was literally crying I was laughing so hard — but that’s not the gift.

The gift Tina shares – which I am re-gifting here – is the ‘Rules of Improvisation’.

She claims they will ‘Change Your Life And Reduce Belly Fat’.

I’ll buy the first part…

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Over the holidays I got a ‘gift’ from Tina Fey. I will tell you about it in my next post but I decided that today I wanted to share with you a story I wrote for the Huffington Post.

(If you’d like to hear about my ‘gift’ from Tina, be sure to subscribe to the ParmFarm! (It’s free!) and I’ll send it right to your inbox.)

The Mistake

My mother’s friends used to kid… “You get more done before 9 a.m. than I get done in a week!”

She was known for her energy, her positive outlook and her love of life. She’d traveled the world, visiting both Antarctica and the Amazon — in her 70s. And then, in September of 2010, she had open heart surgery and got a pacemaker.

No worries. I knew the recovery would take time, she’d likely fatigue easily for months and may even experience depression, as many heart patients do. But, eventually, she’d be good as new.

And then I lost her.

What Happened?

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